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Homercles

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  1. I mainly use Facebook to check our neighborhood page for news and post kid pics for friends/family to see…every time I do I’m amazed at just how much of it is ads or stupid ‘curated for you’ content like historical photo bullshit.
  2. The B2 could be refueled midair as well. Beyond the basics you noted, no one in the public domain really knows but some key suspected changes: - Better stealth through improved materials, smaller size, and the planform is what the B2 was supposed to be (removal of extra sawtooth/duckbill tail) and thus higher altitude too - Massive systems upgrade…beyond a suite of broadband sensors embedded into the exterior and more compute, entire thing is modular to enable more rapid addition/upgrade of capabilities. Supposed to act like a flying network node along the lines of the F35 + electronic attack + control drone swarms - Expected to be much easier to maintain and deploy, and they better follow through with their build out numbers so it doesn’t become another low density, high demand, priceless asset like the B2 did. - A lot of the breakthrough is likely stuff you can’t see…like details on burying the intake / hiding the exhaust signature, how they integrate the sensors into the skin of the thing, latest composite tech, etc. The general idea is it’s not just a bomber, but a flying C3 node directing a collection of manned and unmanned assets while simultaneously vacuuming up ELINT data, interrupting enemy radar/comms, and attacking targets itself.
  3. Best way to use Reddit is google
  4. That Lamar Jackson little animation was some New Orleans slot machine level shit
  5. Officially official for RRISD. Gonna go enjoy the fireworks on the Facebook comments now that it’s fully out there.
  6. This. My wife works for someone at District who is in the know, and apparently they were all waffling the past hour…so guess they changed their mind recently to do late start. I’d be surprised if RRISD cancels while all surrounding are just a late start. Who the fuck knows.
  7. Just got unofficial word through someone who would know that RRISD is canceled Tuesday and a 2-hour delay on Wednesday. At least that’s the latest word until they announce. Expect Austin the same. Every fucking year now.
  8. Yeah I’m thinking 80% chance RRISD closed tomorrow at this rate. It’ll have nothing to do with the roads, which are fine, but the cold + wind chill. Seems like an every year thing now. What I find bemusing is the constant chorus of folks (90% women) flooding the district FB pages with calls to cancel school the next day…citing everything from safety, to lack of proper clothing to crossing guards. One is a district TA, as if they didn’t just get 3 straight weeks off + a long weekend If you feel that strongly just keep your damn kids home and take the unexcused absence. The rest of us have to work and don’t want to do it with the kiddos running around all day.
  9. I drove around RR/Cedar Park for the hell of it, few bridges, etc. From my very limited excursion, everything seemed fine…so I expect schools closed until Thursday.
  10. Yeah I lived in Oklahoma for four years and there were actual road treatments, houses with hose bibs you could drain and an electrical grid that wasn’t guided by fucking profits…strange that winter blasts were better tolerated up there
  11. I suddenly, desperately want to procure a ref-adorned dummy that I can donate to the Surly tailgating contingent, that I may observe the drunken antics when a flag is thrown
  12. Nope. As noted up thread, Santa brought my kids tickets to Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Adventure of Cold As Fuck and the C Montgomery Burns…I mean…Ross Perot Science Museum.
  13. Was light snow from Hillsboro through Waco coming back from Dallas tonight…or maybe frozen Cowboys tears. Didn’t show up on radar but was enough to get my kids excited.
  14. Santa brought my kids tickets to the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest experience up in Dallas/Little Elm, so I’m jealous of y’all watching playoffs and carb loading. Pretty sure my balls froze to my legs for a bit.
  15. Just checked to see if the RRISD Facebook page is inundated with parents calling for schools to be closed next week…they’re out there, I know it.
  16. Any forecast updates from Surly weather wizards?
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